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The Kepler mission is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.

Results from the mission will allow us to place our solar system within the continuum of planetary systems in the Galaxy.

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